The iOS 27 Recovery Menu: What It Means for Forensics
August 5th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, currently in beta, add a bootable recovery menu to the iPhone and iPad. Hold the power button while the device starts up and you land in a small pre-boot environment with six options, one of which is the old “connect to computer” recovery mode. This is the same idea Apple silicon Macs have had for years, and it is overdue on the phone.
Dangerously Easy Password Recovery
April 23rd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
There is only one way to break through PGP® encryption – GPU accelerated brute force – and that one is too many. New Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.80.206 crunches PGP® passwords 200 times faster using graphic chips.
TROOPERS09 – are you with hackers or what?
April 22nd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
If you added this blog to your news feeder, then you prefer getting skilled rather than getting owned – as in Troopers’ motto.
Adobe Reader [in]security
April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
From F-Secure advises against using Adobe Reader article:
Wireless Security Survey
April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
The key findings of the survey of the 35860 wireless networks (in 12 Indian cities) are:
Six-Core Opterons (Istanbul)
April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
According to Tweak Down, AMD will start shipping them next month. We’ll see how do they compare with Intel Gulftown.
Military Strike Fighter F-35 Materials Hacked
April 21st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
As posted by Rosalie Marshall in her today’s article, secret F-35 military plane design materials have been stolen presumably by Chinese hackers (?):
Tesla supercomputer
April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Can you imagine 10,080 processing cores? And how about 40 TFlops? Thanks to NVIDIA Tesla — this is 42 C1060 cards only.
ATI Radeon HD 4770 expected next month
April 21st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
The 40nm-wonder ATI Radeon HD 4770 is expected in May at price $99, according to engaget. It seems it’s going to outperform Nvidia 9800GT in terms of speed and price. As for speed, VR-Zone claims that HD 4770 is not a step behind HD 4850, do you believe it? Look at the benchmarks based on computer games.
Password cracking with Apple Mac Pro
April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Nvidia has announced that it will now offer Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 for Apple Mac Pro systems. Good idea! More on CNET.
Intel Gulftown
April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
New member of Core i7 family: six cores, hyper-threading, and some new instructions — including ones for AES encryption. Unfortunately, useless for our password-cracking purposes: most password-checking routines are based on SHA-1. But anyway, an ability to run 12 threads at a time will definitely increase the performance. We’ll see (in Q1’2010). More info at Tom’s Hardware.
